Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Racism in San Diego

"Days after the cookout, the editor of the Koala, a campus publication known for mocking Muslims, Latinos and Asians, appeared on the university's student-run TV station to defend the event. While on the air, he referred to offended black classmates as "ungrateful niggers." The following day, a sign with the words "Compton Lynching" was found at the TV station. And on Thursday, a noose was hung in the Geisel Library. At parties, on air, in public -- anything goes, it seems. It turns out the problem wasn't just a singlepartybut an all-too-permissive culture in which some UCSD students apparently feel free to express racial malice with a breezy, unconcerned openness." (thanks Kathy)